In December 1948, Albert Einstein and 26 other Jewish intellectuals wrote a letter to the New York Times warning of Menachem Begin’s Herut party, which became the Likud Party, saying it was “closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties.” Begin was visiting New York at the time raising funds and support for his “terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization.”

Albert Einstein’s letter to the Fighters for the Freedom of Israel, commonly known as the Stern Gang or LEHI (Lohmey Heruth Israel). The Stern Gang, which Rahm Emanuel’s father was a member of, “were believers in unrestricted and indiscriminate terror”, Arthur Koestler wrote in “The Rise of Terrorism.” Einstein, a devoted Zionist, strongly opposed the Zionist terrorist gangs that later became the Mossad, Israel’s foreign intelligence agency, and Likud, the extremist right-wing party that rules Israel.